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Alex Hartley

£14.95

Alex Hartley is a British artist whose work confronts our experience and understanding of the built and natural environments. Working primarily with photography, though often incorporating it into sculpture and installation, Hartley assumes a shifting set of roles from photographer and architectural historian to builderer, rambler, mountaineer and explorer, offering an original analysis of architecture and its relationship to landscape.

Alex Hartley‘sexhibition ran from 27 July – 21 October 2007 at The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh

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Alex Hartley Not part of your worldComprehensive survey of Alex Hartley’s practice. Alex Hartley is a British artist whose work confronts our experience and understanding of the built and natural environments. Working primarily with photography, though often incorporating it into sculpture and installation, Hartley assumes a shifting set of roles from photographer and architectural historian to builderer, rambler, mountaineer and explorer, offering an original analysis of architecture and its relationship to landscape.

With extensive illustrations and three new essays, this book offers an overview and an analysis of Hartley’s practice over the last fifteen years. Writers: Fiona Bradley, Martin Caiger-Smith, and Richard Williams (The Anxious City: English Urbanisation at the End of the Twentieth Century)